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Pretexting Led Killer to Amy Boyer

Court documents in a lawsuit filed against an online information brokerage company have revealed that the practice of pretexting led a killer to Amy Boyer. The information brokerage company used by the killer, Docusearch, hired another person to obtain Amy Boyer�s personal information through pretexting.

A Deadly Collection of Information, Washington Post, January 4, 2002.